tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post2654136976481375674..comments2024-03-28T09:04:42.135-04:00Comments on Rip Jagger's Dojo: Death Race 2000!Rip Jaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936426877024852134noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-38330811276922863732014-05-14T02:42:24.097-04:002014-05-14T02:42:24.097-04:00I have some of those comics around here. Wild and ...I have some of those comics around here. Wild and fun but little else. Very colorful as I recollect. <br /><br />Rip OffRip Jaggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936426877024852134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-28872346931986110722014-05-14T02:41:39.712-04:002014-05-14T02:41:39.712-04:00Fascinating. That's a connection I knew nothin...Fascinating. That's a connection I knew nothing about. Thanks. <br /><br />Rip OffRip Jaggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936426877024852134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-81661768741489310782014-05-13T20:47:39.624-04:002014-05-13T20:47:39.624-04:00And 2000 A.D. alumnus Kevin O'Neill illustrate...And 2000 A.D. alumnus Kevin O'Neill illustrated a sequel to Death Race for a short-lived line of Roger Corman comics a while back.Russhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809592629762693427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-22011586955288228392014-05-13T18:51:39.248-04:002014-05-13T18:51:39.248-04:00"The original reminds me of a 2000AD kind of ..."The original reminds me of a 2000AD kind of story."<br /><br />Ironies of ironies... When 2000AD was still in the development stage (back in '75 or '76) the poster for the original DR2000 featuring Frankenstein staring straight on at the camera was seen by (Judge Dredd writer) John Wagner in a newspaper ad . Apparently he thought the image was "as cool as fuck" so cut it out of the paper & sent it to artist Carlos Ezquerra (who had been asigned the task of designing the look of Dredd)telling him that "Judge Dredd should look a bit like this" & in retrospect it's easy to see the connection. So if nothing else, this movie has had a direct influence on one of the iconic characters of modern popular sci-fi. From what I understand Wagner never actually saw the film, but I'd be amazed if other writers & artists who worked on the comic were equally ignorant of it, so it's almost certain it had some influence on other aspects of those original stories.Staz Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17289490295901245918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-10645864597157236832014-05-13T10:39:26.173-04:002014-05-13T10:39:26.173-04:00I avoided DR2000 back when it came out as the prem...I avoided DR2000 back when it came out as the premise seemed horrifying! But as I read more about it through the years and it became more and more a cult item, I finally watched it just a few years back and was surprised how much I enjoyed it. It really WASN'T what I was expecting at all but, as you say, it looks like the deadly serious Statham film MIGHT be just that. The original reminds me of a 2000AD kind of story.Bookstevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com